On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:49:19PM -0400, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> * Perhaps make the string "command-line" API available on
> PosixProcess as well, so people can use either the string or the
> sequence API and expect at least some bit of cross-platformness (but
> I'm fine with telling people to just use the sequence API if others
> don't like this, especially considering this either requires
> calling out to a shell (gah), or doing some unfun argument-splitting.)
Oh god please no.
system(3) and its ilk must die. No exceptions allowed. Never
concatenate arguments on UNIX.
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